Rebellious France will not meet with Macron in the new government negotiations and calls for presidential elections

The party accuses the French president of delivering a “coup” and once again claims its right to govern

Dec. 6 () –

The general secretary of the French leftist party La Francia Insumisa (LFI), Manuel Bompard, announced this Friday that he will not participate in next Monday’s meeting with the country’s president, Emmanuel Macron, to establish a new government and has advocated the need to call new presidential elections as a solution to the political crisis that the country is going through.

LFI is part of the New Popular Front, an alliance formed by the left to increase its options in the legislative elections in July and which also includes the socialists, Europa Ecology The Greens and the Communist Party. The NFP is the bloc with the most seats in the National Assembly since the July elections and, although it does not have a sufficient majority, it claims that it is the one who has the right to take the reins.

“We do not accept the coup of the President of the Republic, who has refused to recognize the result of the last elections by appointing a Prime Minister from the party that obtained fewer votes,” Bompard said in a statement published on his social networks in reference to the already censored Michel Barnier.

Bompard has stated that “only new presidential elections will be able to return to the people their clear and indisputable power of decision through voting.”

Once again, Bompard has reiterated that his party is “ready to govern” and “that is the reason why no other discussion can take place with the Head of State other than the appointment of a New Popular Front government.”

“Therefore, this Monday we will not go to the Elysée,” Bompard concluded in his statement.

The president has opened a round of contacts that once again have as main protagonists the Together for the Republic coalition, whose basic pillar is the party founded by Macron, and The Republicans, standard bearers of the classic center-right, without for now It is clear when the name of the person who will replace Barnier as head of Government will be known.

Bompard, finally, has harshly criticized the preliminary concessions offered this Friday by the Socialist Party whose leader, Olivier Faure, has shown himself willing to negotiate with President Macron’s political partners if there are “reciprocal concessions”

In response, Bompard has assured that he has no intention of governing “with the presidential parties or the traditional right when we have just censored his program.”

“The measures adopted in this regard by the Socialist Party, proposing, for example, abandoning the repeal of retirement at 64 years of age to participate in a government, are its exclusive responsibility,” he declared.